A/Prof Pierre van der Eng

• Economic History


• Economics


• Business
• International Business

• International business, particularly in East Asia
• Business history
• Economic growth and productivity change, particularly in East Asia

• Coordinator/Lecturer, BUSI7020 The European Business System ()

• International Business
• Business in Asia
• Business in Europe
• Development of Modern Business 

• Convenor of the International Business discipline.  

• Vice President, Australia & New Zealand International Business Academy
• Treasurer, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
• Corresponding member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
• Member, Academy of International Business, Economic History Association (USA), Economic History Society (UK), Cliometric Society (USA), European Historical Economics Society.

Some selected publications:

• Networks and Business Development: Convict Business People in Australia, 1817-1824 (with Leanne Johns), Business History (forthcoming 2010).
• Government promotion of labour-intensive industrialisation in Indonesia, in G. Austin and K. Suguhara (eds.) Labour-Intensive Industrialisation. (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2010).
• Market responses to climate stress: Rice in Java, Australian Economic History Review, 50(1) (forthcoming 2010).
• The sources of long-term economic growth in Indonesia, Explorations in Economic History, 47(1) (forthcoming 2010).
• Top incomes in Indonesia (with Andrew Leigh), in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty (eds.) Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century: Volume II, A Global Perspective. (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2010) 171-219.  
• Capital formation and capital stock in Indonesia, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 45(3) 345-71.
• Konfrontasi and Australia's foreign aid program in Indonesia, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 55 (2009) 46-63.
• Inequality in Indonesia: What can we learn from top incomes? (with Andrew Leigh), Journal of Public Economics, 93 (2009) 209-212.
• China or ASEAN? Internationalization of Japanese firms in East Asia since the 1980s, in S. Dzever ed. Evolving Corporate Structures and Cultures in Asia. (New York: Wiley/ISTE, 2008) 53-75.
• Consumer credit in Australia during the 20th Century, Accounting, Business and Financial History, 18(2) (2008) 243-65.
• Surplus mobilisation in farm agriculture: A comparison of Java and Japan, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 42(1) (2006) 35-58. 
• Indonesia's new national accounts, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 41(2) (2005) 253-62.  
• Productivity and comparative advantage in rice agriculture in Southeast Asia, Asian Economic Journal, 18(4) (2004) 345-370. 
• Economic history of Asia: Comparative perspectives, Australian Economic History Review, 44(3) (2004) 215-220. 
• Business in Indonesia: Old problems and new challenges. In M. Chatib Basri and P. van der Eng (eds.) Business in Indonesia: New Challenges, Old Problems. (Singapore: ISEAS, 2004) 1-20.
• Indonesia’s growth performance in the 20th Century, in A. Maddison et al. (eds.) The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002) 143-179. 

 Recent working papers

• Total factor productivity and economic growth in Indonesia. Working Papers in Trade and Development No.2009/1. Canberra: Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, January 2009. 
• De-industrialisation and colonial rule: The cotton textile industry in Indonesia. Working Papers in Trade and Development No.2007/04. Canberra: Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, May 2007. 

On study leave in Semester 1, 2010. 

Pierre worked at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research in London before joining the Australian National University in 1991, first at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, later at the College of Business and Economics. He conducted research projects in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan, and consultancies for the Open University, AusAID, and REPSF. He was visiting professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, 2001), Seikei University (Tokyo, 2002-03), Osaka University (2004, 2005), Kyoto University (2006), the University of Tokyo (2010), and Maastricht University (2010).